I can tell. I just don't want to see a massive format shuffling in Boston as a result of the CBS Radio-Entercom merger, especially after I've seen rumors about EMF eventually making their way into the market by acquiring one of the stations Entercom's divesting as part of their merger with CBS Radio, which I knew was never going to happen. If EMF does want to bring K-Love and/or Air 1 into Boston, iHeartMedia could lease one of their HD subchannels to EMF.
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iHeart gets most stations; 98.5 to Beasley
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I can tell. I just don't want to see a massive format shuffling in Boston as a result of the CBS Radio-Entercom merger, especially after I've seen rumors about EMF eventually making their way into the market by acquiring one of the stations Entercom's divesting as part of their merger with CBS Radio, which I knew was never going to happen. If EMF does want to bring K-Love and/or Air 1 into Boston, iHeartMedia could lease one of their HD subchannels to EMF.
I can tell. I just don't want to see a massive format shuffling in Boston as a result of the CBS Radio-Entercom merger, especially after I've seen rumors about EMF eventually making their way into the market by acquiring one of the stations Entercom's divesting as part of their merger with CBS Radio, which I knew was never going to happen. If EMF does want to bring K-Love and/or Air 1 into Boston, iHeartMedia could lease one of their HD subchannels to EMF.
Now I just do not see EMF doing that!
Now I just do not see EMF doing that!
I don't either. It's going to cost them a whole lot of money to acquire any of these FMs, all to get into a largely humanistic and secular, highly educated market that will ignore, resist or mock the programming offered. Leasing an HD subchannel would certainly be cheaper, but again, how many people have the radios and how many of that subset are going to turn into faithfully listening, enthusiastically giving, check-writing monthly donation machines?
Keep in mind that EMF just got a pretty big signal in Providence with WBRU last week.
And sold their 104.7 translator to iHeartMedia.
Typically, iHeart/EMF HD deals involve a translator as well. I don’t see how a translator gets squeezed into Boston, though I suppose stranger things have happened.
Given that the HD sub-channels of the divested stations would no longer be simulcasting their soon-to-be former sister stations, iHeartMedia could very well repurpose those HD sub-channels, with some of them being leased to EMF since iHeartMedia is already leasing some of its HD sub-channels to EMF in other markets.
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